Horror

Four girls. Four stories. And an ending none of them saw coming.When Vanessa, Lindsey, and Claire sneak away from Camp Kimi for a night of junk food and ghost stories, they meet Dani, a strange and distant girl none of them have seen before. As each tells her own scary tale, they reveal personal truths they could never share directly. But the newcomer has a story of her own, and before they know it, the three friends find themselves an unwitting part of it-and there might be no escape.

MY BABYSITTER IS A VAMPIRESUMMER VACATION TURNS BATTY!Moose Island doesn't have many babysitters, so Meg and Trevor Swain figure they'll have to put up with what they get. But when weird Vincent Graver shows up at their front door, they know they're in for big trouble. Whoever heard of a babysitter who has pointy little teeth, carries a mysterious red liquid around in a bottle, and doesn't like pizza?When Meg discovers Vincent's fascination with sinking his teeth into other people's necks, she and her friend Jack decide what Vincent really is. If they don't act quickly to stop him, Moose Island will turn into Vampire Island before their very eyes! "Hodgman's writing style is excellent, building suspense chapter after chapter…. This is a good read, and kids will love it." -School Library JournalIllustration by John PierardCover illustration by Jeffrey Lindberg

WHEN CLASSES END, THE HORROR BEGINS…Posh Thaler Academy, nestled in the leafy Connecticut countryside, is one of New England's most exclusive boarding schools. For scholarship student Jennifer Field, it's a dream come true to be Thaler. Until the dream turns into a nightmare.Strange shadows flickering across the moonlit campus… a mysterious old building in the woods with a secret lab…a Dean of students whose startling eyes seem to convey unspoken evil. Jennifer is tempted to blame her imagination for her fears. Then she and her boyfriend, Lee, stumble across the body of a Thaler classmate in the woods. A body twisted in agony… from an encounter with something that only looks human…

WHAT. THE. HELVETICA?Tessa Hedgehog's about to lose it in THE TROUBLE WITH QUILLING. She's deep into the quilling process, the itching is driving her mad and if those two pesky boys don't leave her alone, they're going to feel the bite of her spines!Amelia knows her friends are keeping secrets in THE TROUBLE WITH HUMANS and she's on a hunt for the truth. Melvin knows discovery is imminent and he's okay with that, as long as he's not the one exposing the truth. Includes the Bonus Story, THE TROUBLE WITH PETS.Warning: This book contains shifty teen language, which does include the occasional swear word. It is also full of rampant, teen hormones and the subsequent fallout.

In a high school full of shifters, the bunnies are the ones to watch out for!Paulie Porcupine's acorns have gone missing in THE TROUBLE WITH THIEVES and his prime suspects are the rabbit shifters. With the help of his best friend, Melvin Moose, Paulie's determined to recover his acorns and catch the bunnies in the act.Katrina Tiger battles her predatory instincts in THE TROUBLE WITH TIGERS. It's all the bunnies' fault! If they didn't want her to take a nibble, they shouldn't smell so divine. Besides, there are so many of them, surely no one will miss one... or two... or ten.Warning: This book contains shifty teen language, which does include the occasional swear word. It is also full of rampant, teen hormones and the subsequent fallout.

Jon Blythe is sick of waiting for his Yoda. After years of hiding his magic, he's ready to retire from his mortal life, drop out of college, and jump into the world of demon hunters. He just didn't really expect a bleach blond bookstore clerk with light up toys for weapons. Unfortunately, Jordan is Jon's only hope. When rogue magic users come to Rochester with a malicious plan, the odd couple strikes out to save the day. Jordan might not be what Jon expected, but between demons and Econ homework, the demons win every time. Wild nights drag Jon further from normal into the world where his father vanished. Maybe he's becoming an addict. Maybe magic just comes with a price. Either way, he’s hooked.

In a high school full of shifters, it's the one inquisitive human who poses the biggest threat.When a human is the only applicant for town veterinarian and moves to Shifterville with his teenaged daughter, Amelia, the town residents conspire to keep the humans in their midst from discovering their secret. If only they can keep Melvin away from Amelia.Melvin Moose has a problem. Anytime a girl gets too close, his antlers go on walkabout, popping out of his human head at the most inopportune moments. As if that weren't bad enough, a human girl just enrolled at his school, and if she catches sight of his unruly rack, it's all over for Shifterville.Warning: This book contains shifty teen language, which does include the occasional swear word. It is also full of rampant, teen hormones and the subsequent fallout.

The Ghosts of Old Cellar Road tells the tale of three spiders who have lost their jack-o'-lantern home. They must travel with trick-or-treaters down a winding, hilly road far away from the farmhouse porch of their origin in search of the abandoned Keller mansion, the perfect place for their cobwebs. Their travels are not without trials. They face a storm, a peremptory screech owl, and most harrowingly, Broken Lantern Cemetery, whose ghosts might haunt Old Cellar Road, and beyond!

Harvey Anderson always knew the universe was against him, but there's a lot of stuff he never expected to happen, like having a crush on the most popular girl at school, and then falling into a giant hole in the middle of nowhere with her. And if that wasn't enough, somehow they managed to release a soul-sucking, ancient witch as well. So yeah, there's that. You'd think it'd be pretty hard to beat, but knowing Harvey's luck, it's about to get a whole lot worse.

Charlotte Usher, a.k.a. ghostgirl, discovers that the afterlife isn't quite what she expected when she's forced to intern at a hotline for troubled teens. She may be dead, but the phone lines sure aren't. So, when duty calls, Charlotte has to take the risk of a lifetime--or call it quits for good.

Ellen Theodora Madigan sees past events in her dreams and has the smarts to solve the mysteries they hint at. At age fifteen, she moves to Rangeley, Maine after spending much of her life living near her dad's archaeological dig sites in other countries. She and her family spend her dad's sabbatical year at her grandparents' lake house. She befriends a loner girl at school, starts having dreams about the first inhabitants of the area, Abenaki Native Americans, and keeps encountering loons that she feels are trying to communicate. With the help of her first boyfriend, she solves the three mysteries: Why is the girl so alone? What are the dreams and the loons telling her? and Why did the Abenaki leave?

Middle school is scary. So are skeleton girls. To win at both, you've got to put some skin in the game.Cindy might appear to be your average twelve year old, but since her mother's death she has a secret. Every night she turns into a boney, white skeleton.As if that wasn't bad enough, Cindy's dad is afraid of her. She has an evil stepmother who makes her do crazy chores, some of them with a toothbrush. And then there's the werewolf with intentions of making Cindy his midnight snack.The Spring Fling dance is fast approaching and Ethan, the cutest boy in sixth grade, doesn't seem to know Cindy exists. She doesn't think letting Ethan know she's a cursed skeleton-girl is the best way to introduce herself. Determined to break the curse, Cindy travels to the Underworld where things aren't quite what they seem, including Mr. Death, the strange and creepy undertaker.With a jar of pickled pig's feet, a wacky fortuneteller, and a cranky skeleton mouse, Cindy is afraid this curse has really gotten under her skin.

No one comes between the Devil and his pride.To save his friends, Finn Wager opened a bridge between worlds. But the dark magic he used exacted a terrible price. Unable to remain on the Soulkeeper team, he joins a coven of magicians in New Orleans, vowing to undo the damage he’s caused. But when he tries to save the day, he ends up making everything worse.The Soulkeepers are more vulnerable than ever. The new Healer is reluctant to replace Hope on the team. Even if he decides to try, he’ll have to pass an initiation by the Immortals with life or death consequences. Meanwhile, the Soulkeepers are without the leader they need.Twice, the Soulkeepers have evaded Lucifer’s clutches and injured his pride. Now it’s personal. He’ll stop at nothing to exploit their weaknesses, take back his power, and end the Soulkeepers for good. Unless through courage, loyalty, and self-sacrifice, they can find a way to become a team again.

WHEN EVIL IS THE ENEMY, POWER IS A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND.Now that she’s fully accepted her role, Hope takes up the mantle of Healer to lead a new team of untrained Soulkeepers. Repurposing Revelations to be a training ground won’t be easy, not when the source of its power has been disrupted, and the only woman who knows the island’s secrets is on her deathbed.Time isn’t on Hope’s side. Lucifer is on the move, injured and unable to return to Hell. He’s found a way to amass power by consuming human souls. Worse, if he grows strong enough to get his hands on an ancient weapon before Hope does, everything the Soulkeepers fought for could be undone.Sinister plots, unlikely allies, and old temptations plague the new team. Can Hope’s promise lead them to victory? Or will her inexperience doom them all?

A deadly disease.Worldwide pandemonium. An ancient riddle.A single plateful of food could save us all.With two mysterious tablets still to discover, time is running out for the Heirs of Eden.While the ghost, Cain, delivers his deadly virus as humans sleep, Commissioner Stone, head of coordinating the disaster recovery, has concluded that responsibility for the worldwide catastrophe lies directly with Archie, Daisy and Isabella. With Stone's men closing in on their remote farmhouse, each Heir of Eden - Archie, Daisy and Isabella - must put aside their differences, decipher the ancient code and eat their greatest fear. Only if they succeed will they come out of the Chamber of Truth alive. The Chamber of Truth, the third book in James Erith's acclaimed Eden Chronicles series, continues the acclaimed English teenage fantasy drama of 'The Power and The Fury' and 'Spider Web Powder'.Praise for The Chamber of Truth:"... so much fun to read. Full of intrigue and adventure.""Just brilliant - the words truly paint a picture.""The gripping sequel to the two previous volumes in this series. Written for a younger audience I, as an adult, have found it engaging and a thoroughly good read and would recommend it to both an adolescent and adult readership in the same way that JK Rowling's Harry Potter books appealed to all ages."James Erith's Eden Chronicles are: Book 1 - The Power and The Fury Book 2 - Spider Web Powder Book 3 - The Chamber of Truth Book 4 - The Dragon's Game Eden Chronicles Book Set: Books 1-3

The zombie apocalypse is over... Now even undead kids have to go to school.

A nameless girl, who dwells in the small New England town of Paper Falls, recalls a mysterious autumn experience. One October night, a storm lashes through the quaint little village, leaving behind a cold and eerie mess of trees and fog. The girl, a lonely connoisseur of imagination, takes a stroll to the graveyard the morning after, carefully passing the disheveled white house that stands near the graveyards front gates. An old woman who lives inside has remained a mystery to the girl for years, as well as to the town, but after a series of enchanting events, the girl comes face-to-face with the woman who encourages her not to waste her gifts of perception, expression, and words.

All Matt Legend wanted to do that dangerous summer was to win the affections of a certain Southern small town girl and head home to L.A. But when they happen across the bones of a Nephilim inside an ancient burial mound they are warned if they tell anyone terrible things will happen and terrible things do. He doesn't believe in the devil or ghosts or giants or God. That is all about to change.They have stumbled across a stasis giant, an entity Abraham Lincoln once told of. Having a normal life ever again is out of the question a Matt and a super-heroine-like girl of his dreams, a Young Marine, find themselves in a war against the spirit world. It is a war they can't possibly win. When they are joined by his cousin, a hip-hop mogul wannabe, and her brother, an obnoxious computer hacker, an evil force pulls the stops to try to kill them, their families and their friends. Things go from terrible to worse when they tell the world what they found and discover ghosts are not dead people! But the evil has an even deadlier secret to protect - extraterrestrials are not extraterrestrial.For the young demon fighters it's a race against time. If they win, Matt will get the girl. If they lose, seven billion people will perish. This is the first of the Matt Legend series of adventures of the supernatural kind that deal with everything from giants and mermaids, to aliens, to UFOs, cryptids, fallen angels and other extra-dimensional beings, the hollow earth, the hollow moon, subterranean civilizations, chemtrails, forbidden archaeology and all other strange and terrible things. Heralded as a paranormal Spykids meets Raiders of the Lost Ark, this thrilling series is inspired by covered-up true events.The much anticipated second installment, Matt Legend: The Hollow Earth, is due in 2020. The legend continues.

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The end is near.Book 6 of 6 in the bestselling Soulkeepers Series.Just when the Soulkeepers think they've established a foothold in the war between Heaven and Hell, the playing field shifts. Enraged by Cord's disappearance, Lucifer replaces his right-hand man with the Wicked Brethren, three Watchers so formidable even their own kind fears them.The Soulkeepers struggle to survive in an increasingly deadly world while continuing to defend human souls. How far will they go when saving the world means sacrificing their most precious team member?Other books in The Soulkeepers Series! The Soulkeepers, book 1 Weaving Destiny, book 2 Return to Eden, book 3 Soul Catcher, book 4 Lost Eden, book 5Read the bestselling series that readers call "captivating and exciting. A must read!"

Rules. Balance. Consequences. War.Book 5 of 6 in The Soulkeepers SeriesWhen Fate gave Dane the water from Eden to drink, she did more than save his life. She changed his destiny.Since the beginning, a covenant between God and Lucifer has maintained a tenuous peace, balancing Soulkeepers and Watchers and the natural order of things. Dane upset that balance the day he became a Soulkeeper. Fate broke the rules.Now, Lucifer is demanding a consequence, requiring Fate to pay the ultimate price for her involvement. God intervenes on the immortal's behalf but in order to save her soul must dissolve the covenant and with it the rules, order, and balance that have kept the peace. A challenge is issued. A contest for human souls begins. And the stakes? Earth. Winner take all.The Soulkeepers are at the center of a war between Heaven and Hell, and this time nobody, anywhere, is safe from Lucifer's reach.Don't miss these other books in The Soulkeepers Series! The Soulkeepers, Book 1 Weaving Destiny, Book 2 Return to Eden, Book 3 Soul Catcher, Book 4 The Last Soulkeeper, Book 6Read the bestselling series that readers call "captivating and exciting. A must read!"

A murder. A mission. A mystery.Book 4 in the bestselling Soulkeepers Series.Dane Michaels has been to Hell and back and isn't interested in repeating the experience. But as a human caught up in the Soulkeeper's world, his life isn't exactly his own. No one can explain why Dane was allowed through the gates of Eden, but it's changed everything. Now, the only one who can make him feel safe is Ethan, the telekinetic Soulkeeper with a dark past and a heart of gold.When Malini asks Dane to be part of a mission to find the last Soulkeeper, Cheveyo, more than one team member thinks she's tempting Fate. But Malini suspects Fate has had a hand in Dane's life for some time and that he could be the key to unraveling Lucifer's latest plan of attack.Don't miss these other books in The Soulkeepers Series! The Soulkeepers (Book 1) Weaving Destiny (Book 2) Return to Eden (Book 3) Lost Eden (Book 5) The Last Soulkeeper (Book 6)Read the bestselling series that readers call bold, brilliant, and brave!

When your soul is the devil's due, redemption ain't what it used to be.Book 3 in the bestselling Soulkeepers Series.Dr. Abigail Silva has waited over 10,000 years for redemption and a chance at a real relationship with the angel she loves. But when you're made from evil itself, it's hard to remember if salvation is worth the wait. With Lucifer's plan coming to fruition, she must decide if God's offer of humanity is all it's cracked up to be, or if a deal with the devil is the more promising solution.Don't miss these other books in The Soulkeepers Series! The Soulkeepers (Book 1) Weaving Destiny (Book 2) Soul Catcher (Book 4) Lost Eden (Book 5) The Last Soulkeeper (Book 6)Get the bestselling series that readers call "Amazing. A must read for all ages!"

Destiny is a fabric woven from our choices. Choose wisely. Book 2 in the bestselling Soulkeepers Series. Malini Gupta thought Jacob Lau was her destiny. But after months of failing to decipher how she fits into the Soulkeepers, frustration threatens to tear their relationship apart. And it doesn't help that a new Soulkeeper named Mara is ready to stop time itself to earn Jacob's love. When Malini faces her worst fears, and even death, she learns a funny thing about destiny. Fate is a tapestry of choices, and she has the power to weave hers.Don't miss these other books in The Soulkeepers Series! The Soulkeepers, Book 1 Return to Eden, Book 3 Soul Catcher, Book 4 Lost Eden, Book 5 The Last Soulkeeper, Book 6Get your copy of the book readers say "gets more interesting with every chapter!"

DARK. SUSPENSEFUL. EXCITING.Zoe is your typical high school student; that is, if you don't count that her boyfriend is a Nephilim, she fights Demons for a living, and that she brought her best friend back from the dead.Zoe wants things to go back to normal, but "normal" isn't really her thing. There's a new guy in town, one Zoe can't help but feel desperately attracted to… though he's dangerous. Really dangerous. And he's just the start of her problems. Zoe is trapped in a race against time to get her powers under control or suffer the consequences. Tied to the fight between good and evil, Zoe must keep the peace between Angels, Fairies, Werewolves, and other creatures of the night. Betrayal and darkness loom in the shadows, and Zoe isn't sure who she can trust.But her current issues are nothing compared to the storm brewing on the horizon. Zoe has no idea what's coming, or the danger she's in. Because on her eighteenth birthday, it's gonna be one hell of a fight.A young adult urban fantasy filled with action, adventure, and romance, Daggers & Dresses is the second book in bestselling author Kristin D. Van Risseghem's amazing Enlighten series. Paranormal monsters rule a universe where dark magic comes to play and love becomes dangerous. Book 1, Swords & Stilettos, is available now!

Pirate Perdita: "I'm no one's damsel in distress."What would you do if you had a dinosaur army, a spaceship, and the ability to travel through time? If you happened to be a beautiful but cruel villainess, you would probably take over the world. Or she would, if Pirate Perdita wasn't there to steal her zombie-making jewel. Now if only Perdita hadn't been kidnapped. Of course Mr. Ii, Perdita's first prisoner, is trying to get her back. And eleven year old Leander Jack? He's just trying not to die. Adventure awaits in this multi-dimensional story, with dinosaurs, pirates, zombies, time ships, space ships, and at the center, a jewel. Will Pirate Perdita steal the Star of Bokor? Will Leander Jack be eaten by bambiraptors? Will the prisoner Mr. Ii ever escape? And will the zombie dinosaurs take over Earth, or will the band of pirates save the day?Pirate Perdita is a juvenile fiction novel. It is written at a fourth grade reading level.